For everyone who says "This is why state tag should exist," this is why Florida exists. The wtf factor for the state is the creme de la creme, daily. Not a once a month random find.

Perhaps Google's Street View department will lobby against it.

Rosie O'Donnell has a lot of power in Florida.

That's ridiculous... how's a cow going to sign it, anyways? In MILK?

just another small govt freedom loving republican.

FTA: "Simpson said he doesn't think that "innocent" roadside photography would be prosecuted even if the bill is passed as introduced."

Any legislator, state or federal, who introduces a broad bill criminalizing ordinary behavior saying "we're really only doing it to target X" should be taken out back and shot. I seriously mean that. This is how we get a police state. "Oh, just give us this broad power, and then trust we'll use it properly."

How the fark are they going to make cow porn, then?

First they came for the people who photograph cows on the side of the road without written permission, and I did not speak up because I was not a person who photographed cows on the side of the road without written permission.

LittleBlondeJug: How the fark are they going to make cow porn, then?

This puts a damper on your weekend activities?

Worse case of lactose intolerance I've ever seen.

I guess they're keeping their "intellectual property" hidden so it isn't visible from the road as well. Right?

Want privacy? Keep your crap in private.

"Mr. Norman should be filing bills to throw the doors of animal producers wide open to show the public where their food comes from rather than criminalizing those who would show animal cruelty,"

Well, the problem is that Peta and other extreme animal rights groups are bad to cherry pick facts that make it seem worse than it really is in order to get their way

Crouching Photographer, Hidden Cow

Jesus H. Chrysler. If you are worried about people disguising themselves as farmers to sneak onto farms so that they can secretly film agricultural operations then simply ban people from disguising themselves as farmers and sneaking onto farms to that they can secretly film agricultural operations!

Can you still roll down the window and yell "MOOOO"?

*sigh*

Republicans always claim they want smaller government and one that won't interfere. Could the republican be afraid that a picture of his girlfriend could show up on the net?

werekoala: That's udderly ridiculous... how's a cow going to sign it, anyways? In MILK? FIFY

Sudo_Make_Me_A_Sandwich: FTA: "Simpson said he doesn't think that "innocent" roadside photography would be prosecuted even if the bill is passed as introduced."

Any legislator, state or federal, who introduces a broad bill criminalizing ordinary behavior saying "we're really only doing it to target X" should be taken out back and shot. I seriously mean that. This is how we get a police state. "Oh, just give us this broad power, and then trust we'll use it properly."

THIS. Does this legislator not know how the law works? And his rationalizing would make things even worse -- "Well, we'll use the law only against bad people, not good people. Of course, we will be the ones who can tell who is who." Congratulations, dumbass. You've just destroyed the very concept of "a government of laws and not of men".

Sudo_Make_Me_A_Sandwich: FTA: "Simpson said he doesn't think that "innocent" roadside photography would be prosecuted even if the bill is passed as introduced."

Any legislator, state or federal, who introduces a broad bill criminalizing ordinary behavior saying "we're really only doing it to target X" should be taken out back and shot. I seriously mean that. This is how we get a police state. "Oh, just give us this broad power, and then trust we'll use it properly."

This. Any time abuse of power by the government becomes possible, it also becomes inevitable.

google earth and google street maps beware. lol

It's against the law to frown at a cop in NJ. Women can't wear patent leather shoes in Ohio.

I can see it now, in 100 years kids are gonna be posting in threads about stupid archaic laws from the USA and this Florida law is gonna be one, if it isn't already.

Can you still roll down the window and yell "MOOOO"?


That will probably be a felony stalking or something.

Perhaps it's all the untreated fecal waste that flows down to the southern states that makes them uber-retarded. Just a thought.

The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves: Can you still roll down the window and yell "MOOOO"?

No, that's a mooooo-ing violation.

Dear Sen. Jim Norman, R-Tampa,



Please take all the money you have stolen from taxpayers, taken from moron greedhead shills and lobbyists, make a nice comfy pile, lie down in it and eat a fu*king gun.

Thanks,

People everywhere who hate ridiculous jerkoffs like you collecting a check from the public.

It's about goddamn time.

It's about damned time someone had enough courage to take a stand and end our long national nightmare of curbside cow photography.

So like.. does the bill specify bovine cows? Because if I see a humpback whale cow on the side of the road, I'm totally taking a farking picture.

When photographing cows on the side of the road without written permission is outlawed, only outlaws will photograph cows on the side of the road without written permission.

At first I cringed. Then I realized this has nothing to do with cows on the roadside, and is targeted at PETA.

Yes, butchering is a nasty business, but THEY ARE FOOD GET OVER IT

Screw this story. What's this guy's problem?

wait ... farms have intellectual property - I am of to patent "sending a cow to the slaughter house by loading into a truck" and for every cow that is slaughtered in the US I will get 50c. Or there will be lawyers involved.

RamboFrog: When photographing cows on the side of the road without written permission is outlawed, only outlaws will photograph cows on the side of the road without written permission.

I have a confession. I've been guilty of this crime. I am throwing myself on the mercy of the court of Fark.